Build for Fire Tablets

Increase revenue for your Fire tablet apps

Amazon's developer tools empower you to create an immersive experience that connects with and entertains your audience. The all-new family of Fire tablets brings a first-class entertainment experience with an updated user interface, deep integration of Amazon-exclusive services, and hundreds of new and upgraded feature and platform updates.

Extending your mobile apps to tablets gives you the ability to take your content to the next level, creating entertaining experiences for customers and giving you another channel to monetize your content. Browse our suite of development tools, tech docs, APIs, and SDKs to start building for Fire tablets today.

Getting started

Fire OS 5 is our Android-based operating system that powers Fire tablets, Fire TV, and Fire TV Stick. Fire OS 5 is based on Android 5.1 (Lollipop MR1) and API 22 and is more compatible with existing Android apps than ever before. This means that even more of your apps should work on Fire tablets with no additional engineering effort.

Test your Android app for comatibility

Already have an Android APK? Simply drag and drop your app into ATS to get compatibility results in 90 seconds.

Set up your development environment

Set up your development environment using the standard tools for Android development.

Create your first Fire Tablet app

Walk through our step-by-step tutorial on how to use Android Studio to create a Hello Fire app.

Connect to Fire Tablet via ADB

Use Android Debug Bridge (ADB) to connect your Fire Tablet to a development computer for testing and debugging.

Device specifications

Specs for all generations of Fire tablets.

Assistive technologies

Amazon's suite of assistive technologies for device users with disabilities.

UX specifications

Configure your apps for multiple Fire tablet experiences.

Development FAQs

Frequently asked questions about developing for Fire tablets.

Development frameworks and tools

Android development

Fire tablet apps utilize the same tools, IDEs, and APIs that you already use for Android development.

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